#TwoForTuesday:

The KX Painter Drinking cup (skyphos) with confronting lions Archaic Period, c. 585–570 BCE Greece, Attica, Athens Ceramic, Black Figure, H 11.2 cm (4 7/16 in.) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 97.366

"On the obverse, two lions stand confronted with their chests touching and their faces turned backwards towards the vessel’s handles. Each of the lions is rendered in black paint. Their manes, mouths, chests and bellies are all detailed with red paint, while the locks of hair along their necks alternate in color between red and black. Details of the lions’ anatomy are articulated with incisions. Their ferocity is implied especially by their open mouths, which display their large teeth and projecting tongues. On reverse, a complex interlocking lotus and palmette motif fills the entire pictorial field. The rim and handles of the vessel are decorated with thin linear bands. The lions and the lotus and palmette motif stand atop a red bounding line, below which is a pair of gridded lines and another red bounding line, which is in turn bordered by a ray pattern that emanates from the cup’s foot."

Arkat and Nysalor, the legendary demigods whose war almost shattered the world. One of my pieces for the newly released Runequest Prosopaedia.

black figure pottery inspired enjolrases from a few years ago i forgot to reupload

Parthénos

12” x 4” x 6”

Birch wood, acrylic and wall paint, black ink pen, black alcohol markers, high gloss varnish, wood glue, flat head screws.

I did this piece for my sculpture class and I love how it turned out! We had to do either three small sculptures or two larger ones that played with the principals of art. I wanted to play with colour and repetition (there are definitely other principles at play as well), so I decided on simplifications/abstractions of landmarks!

This one is inspired by the Parthenon in Athens. Luckily I have a friend who’s studying to be an architect so she was able to share a few pdf’s with the general lay out of the temple. I wanted to try to emulate the feeling of the temple being worn down by time with the broken and fallen columns. I also wanted to do something different then just making it all white, so I got some nice paint from Home Depot and based the paint job off black figure pottery!

The columns are attached by drilling into the base and columns and then twisting the columns onto the screws. For strength I put a little bit of wood glue on the screw before hand.

AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED NECK-AMPHORA AND LID CIRCA 510 B.C.

~ Beaker (kalathos) with Athletes and Trainers.

Culture: Attic, Greek

Period: Archaic period

Date: ca. 800–480 B.C.

Medium: Black-figure ceramic

Emet and hyth as hades and apollo done in a red figure pottery style

Hadra hydria decorated in the black-figure technique with a bucranium flanked by swans in a panel between the handles and dolphins on the shoulder. The Greek inscription Dorotheou, 'of Dorotheos', incised above the bull's head, is the name of the person whose ashes this vase originally contained. Image by British Museum. Learn more / Daha fazlası Hadra Ware https://www.archaeologs.com/w/hadra-ware/

Amphora featuring two images of Athena (or Amazons?) and roosters.

Attic Black Figure-ware, c. 450BC

Found in Athens, Attika.

love me some greece au inspo! i forgot that was one of your wips (cause you have so many amazing fics 🤩) and now i’m sooo excited and gonna re read those chapters tonight! also i completed my play-through of odyssey a few months back and i want to restart it too 🤭

Lmao it’s easy to forget, since I haven’t updated it since August!!!! I’m working on it though, it just takes longer than any of my other WIPs because I keep getting sucked into research rabbit holes over historical details that are totally inconsequential to the story but I’m having a good time reading about and then it’s been several hours and I haven’t written anything. Like do I need to read multiple articles on Peisistratus and Hippias because I’m basing Lex loosely off of them?? No. Will I????????? Absolutely

Work in progress of my newest Beastos piece, it will be rendered in a similar way to the “shadow puppets” in GOW3′s opening cinematic c:

Red or Black?

Alyssa. our Art History blogger, takes us on an adventure back in time through art. Discussing the Greeks and their different types of pottery, Alyssa explains these different types of pottery and their significance in history. #MarywoodArt #ArtHistory

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Did two quick black and red figure pottery inspired designs b/c I was bored.

The first one is an odyssey inspired design I’m using for a ceramic plaque (I’ve been making Greek pottery for an independent study project).

The second one is this owl design I discovered while looking up Athena pottery examples. I found like three or four pictures of skyphoi with this owl design and I just thought it was really cute 🤧 I have an aryballos with this pattern as well as a mini plaque just for fun.

I want to give each contender a little blurb for people to read in case they don't know the myth, but unfortunately I don't know all the myths either. I may outsource help, but I want to make things understandable for anyone who doesn't know these guys immediately.

AN ATTIC BLACK FIGURE AMPHORA AND LID Circa 540 b.c. Manner of the Taleides Painter

One side with a rider, perhaps Hephaistos, upon an ithyphallic mule facing right, a revelling maenad and satyr to the left and right, the satyr on the left grasping its haunches and penetrating the mule from behind, the satyr on the right aroused, his arms open, with a leg-shaped aryballos hanging from the mule's phallus, psuedo-inscriptions in the field; the other side with Dionysus between two satyrs and two maenads, pseudo-inscriptions in the field, details in added red, graffiti on the underside of the foot, each scene with a lotus-bud chain above, with rays above the foot, the slightly domed lid with a conical finial

13 in. (34.3 cm) high including the lid.